Fidel Castro 1926 - Cuban leader
- 1792 - French revolutionaries took the entire French royal family and imprisoned them.
- 1889 - A patent for a coin-operated telephone was issued to William Gray.
- 1942 - Henry Ford unveiled his "Soybean Car." It was a plastic-bodied car that weighed about 1000 lbs. less than a steel car.
- 1960 - "Echo I," a balloon satellite, allowed the first two-way telephone conversation by satellite to take place.
- 1961 - Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.
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